The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-20
THE SALT LAKE HERALD. WEDNESDAY. JULY 96 7gs7
MINES AND MINING.
Some Rich Strikes in the South
General News.

RICH strike is also reported in the
lower workings of the Mammoth.
OTTo HUDSON, and three other young
miners, recently struck fine vein OF
galena ore, on Bolter Mountain, about
two and a half miles east of the Salt
Lake & " estern Railway. They made
their first shipment of one car yester
day. Itruns Is ounces in silver and %
per cent. lead. The owners are wild
with delight and are already assuming
the airs Of bloated bondholders.
THE LAST Chance Lode of Era has
been bonded by the Bannock Company,
report saws at $4,000. The ore that
has been extracted from the Last
Chance is now being worked by the
Bannock mill and yields 80 ounces per
ton. The mine is a true assure vein
and doubtless will prove to be one OF
the paying mines of this promising DIS
trict. The st. Louis mine is now ship
ping fine quantity of ore. This ore is
of what is known as surface. Their
| tunnel which the owners have been cut
ting has not as yet reached the vein,
when it does it will cut the vein at some
400 feet in depth.
The SURVEYING party was at the foot
of the mountains at the head of Croy
gulch on Saturday last. They had a
most practicable and feasible route up
Croy highest grade encountered, forty
feet to the mile, in the mountains. The
present plan of the company is only to
survey and permanently locate their
road to Camas No. l or Camas No. 2, it
is not decided which. The survey will
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question. As soon as the survey is
complete and the right of way obtained,
with sufficient land for mills. etc., at
the river, and the right to use so much
of the water as the company may re-
quire for their purposes, the work of
construction and equipment will be
commenced and pushed to completion
at once, if The three prerequisites
named are complied with. as the neces-
sary money is ready Inter Idaho.
WE ARE indebted, says the Inter
Idaho, to Mr.. W. A. McKinnon, fore
man of the Bannock mill, at Era. for
the following facts: The Bannock mine
is looking well and producing fine
grade of ore in quantities sufficient to
Keep the mill running. M. G. Thum,
uperintendent, is temporarily absent at
Salt Lake City, attending a meeting of
the directory of the company. AS is
known, the Bannock mine is of horn
silver ore. Mr.. McKInnon has been
working the mill to its full capacity.
He has been roasting and arhalgamst-
ing about thirty tons of ore per day.
The capacity of the mill is only about
twenty tons per day. He works up to
80 and 95 per cent. of assay value The
company are operating with a White &
Howell furnace. By mixing about 80
per cent. of surface ore with the black
sulphurets of the mine very little fuel is
required, as there is so much sulphur.
The ore after roasting is then ANAL
IN the pans, known as the
Frazer d Chalmer pans About sixty
i've men are constantly employed by
The company. The Lava Bed mines in
his part OF the country are looking
we'll, giving promise of rich district
Upon further development, especially
he Hub mine. 1t is only a question
IF time as to the value of these mines
a source of supply to our
iilVer production.